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re: Mouse cursor jumping around
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at 8:33 am
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Posted by Ricardo M. Forno (1 messages posted)


A solution: I think I've solved the problem by copying all of C:\windows and c:\windows\system from a backup I made when first installing W 98 SE (under stand-alone DOS).


On Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 7:41 pm, firlandsfarm wrote:
>I have a similar problem with my mouse except that it happens when my Hard Drive 
>is working hard so another plea to anybody who knows the solution.  All was OK with 
>my system (Athlon600, 512mb, 28gb, Win98SE) until I suferred a crash about 3 months 
>ago and have had the problem ever since.
>
>I also had this problem under Win95.  At that time I had a utilities suite that 
diagnosed 
>that my system had defaulted to a very basic version of HD driver (something like 
>a "get you out of trouble emergency driver").  It told me what to do to correct 
the 
>problem and the problem disappeared.  I assume the HD driver was taking all the 
resources. 
> Unfortunately the utilities were OS specific so I dropped them when I switched 
to 
>98 but now I cannot find them on the net.  I think they were called "Soft Sara" 
or 
>something similar.  If anybody knows of them I would love to know.
>
>Anyway, the point is check your CD/HD drivers!
>
>
>The Farmer
>
>January 5, 2003 at 11:26 am, edlord wrote:
>>I have a question about Troubleshooting 
>>Driver Problems:

>> >> >>Mouse cursor jumping around like crazy while burning (Nero 5576) or copying from >>cd to hd. (so far along, newly formatted, will probably see more of it) I know this >>is a common problem, but does anyone have a fix? >>or a cause? I have seen this since 98se except xp. My setup: >> >>AMD 2000+ >>msi 745 ultra (AC97) >>256+256 DDR 333 PC2700 >>40 + 80GB >>Gforce4 420mx >>DVD + cd-rom >>Latest drivers codecs and sp3




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re: Mouse cursor jumping around (firlandsfarm: Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 7:41 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Mouse cursor jumping around (edlord: Sun, Jan 5, 2003, 11:26 am)
-re: Mouse cursor jumping around (Zach: Sun, Jan 5, 2003, 12:28 pm)
-re: Mouse cursor jumping around (edlord: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 10:00 am)
*re: Mouse cursor jumping around (bobo: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 10:03 am)
-re: Mouse cursor jumping around (firlandsfarm: Sun, Feb 2, 2003, 7:41 pm)
*re: Mouse cursor jumping around (leecher: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 12:05 pm)
*re: Mouse cursor jumping around (Ricardo M. Forno: Wed, Mar 10, 2004, 8:33 am)
*re: Mouse cursor jumping around (Sandra McDaniel: Tue, Jun 28, 2005, 6:25 pm)
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